A patient has had recent mechanical heart valve surgery and is receiving anticoagulant therapy. while monitoring the patient's laboratory work, the nurse interprets that the patient's international normalized ratio (inr) level of 3 indicates that

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The nurse takes to mean that the patient's international normalized ratio level of 3 point out that the patient's warfarin dose is at therapeutic levels. In addition, the warfarin is an anticoagulant drug in use to avoid the blood from thickening and to treat blood clots and overly thick blood and is also used to lessen the possibility of clots triggering stroke or heart occurrences. The warfarin works by destroying the production of some clotting aspects and thereby impeding the clotting of blood. It interrelates with many other drugs containing some vitamins and these dealings can be dangerous which is even life-threatening.